Quotes about Patience

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

He who hits and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all.

Your blessings are not ahead of you, they're behind you but you pull them toward you as you walk in His will Step by step day by day, they come. everything you need will come Just Trust and obey.... and the blessings will chase you down and overtake you.

If what we want is God's justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out of the way and let God do his own work, rather than supposing our burst of anger (which will most likely have all sorts of nasty bits to it, such as wounded pride, malice and envy) will somehow help God do what needs to be done.

Albert Schweitzer, a century or more ago, used another strong image. Jesus, he said, was like a man convinced the wheel of history was going to turn in the opposite direction. He waited for this to happen, but it didn't. Then he threw himself upon the wheel, and it crushed him—but it did indeed start to turn in the other direction.

We applaud patience but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

How would you describe a mature person?

Whenever anyone tells you that coronavirus means that God is calling people—perhaps you!—to repent, tell them to read Job. The whole point is that that is not the point.

Thus it won't do to say there is nothing that can be done to improve matters before Jesus returns. Yes, the second coming will accomplish all sorts of things of which at present we can only dream. I do not expect to see the wolf lying down with the lamb within the present state of creation, and if I were to meet a lion in the street (fortunately, an unlikely event in eastern Scotland), I would not rely on its having read Isaiah 11 and knowing that it should now be vegetarian.